So obviously, it goes without saying that you can’t body check them, either. And yet that’s what one Bulgarian soccer player did recently after a ref made a call that didn’t go his way.

On Sunday, Bulgarian clubs Cherno More Varno and Lavski Sofia played for the Bulgarian Cup. During that game, with Levski up 3-0, Cherno defender Sasho Alexandrov got whistled for a very soft take-down of a Levski player in the box. At that point, I guess he had seen enough, so when referee Stefan Spasov came running in to spot the ball, Alexandrov ran right at the guy and body checked him, hockey style.

Take a look:

Yeah, that’ll earn you a red card every time.

After the game Alexandrov apologized, explaining “it was not on purpose. I was ashamed when he fell.” However, that wasn’t enough to stave off further action from the Bulgarian Football Union, which suspended the guy for 6 games and fined him about $1500.